For a number of social theorists, the contemporary era, fundamentally different from the past, is often called “postmodern.” It is constantly bombarded by and defined by an endless barrage of mass-mediated simulations, contrived, mass-produced representations of a “reality” where an original may have never existed. It creates models of the real where there is no original. Billboards, movies, and television, along with cell phones, tablets, and computers, now supply never-ending streams of simulations, dreams, and images of this “created” but artificial – indeed “fake” – reality; the signs of the real are indeed reality. These simulations are largely a product of advertisers, marketers, journalists, and political consultants who create and disseminate the spectacles and simulations that constitute a new social order of “hyper-reality.” Indeed, we have now reached a moment that many political commentators have call a “post truth” era in which “truthiness” has displaced “objective reality” and now “alternative facts” promulgated by “fake news” is unquestioned and “fake politics” the norm.